# Post ts_110986448713710301

- Post ID: `ts_110986448713710301`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-08-31T21:53:29.725Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110986448713710301
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110986448713710301/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110986448713710301.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Crooked Joe Biden is spending $25 Million on dishonest TV Ads to lie to the American People. We can’t let him get away with it!http://DonaldJTrump.com

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (0:42), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> -Crooked Joe Biden is spending $25 million on dishonest TV ads to lie to the American people and cover up his many disasters and scandals. We can't let him get away with it. That's all they're good at is disinformation and misinformation. With your support, we will make sure that every single voter in the country knows the truth. Crooked Joe is the most incompetent and corrupt president in American history. It's not even close. So we cannot let them continue to run this country because our country is going to hell. We have to win in '24. If we don't win in '24, I don't believe our country even has a chance. Thank you very much.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/986/448/276/239/341/original/db61e9996718df1d.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 22,053
- Reposts: 6,729
- Replies: 2,091
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.400Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:07:06.077Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: Trump Truth Social Post — 2023-08-31T21:53:29Z

## Authorship Attribution

**Local Time Conversion:** Trump was almost certainly at Bedminster, NJ in late August 2023 (his summer residence). EDT = UTC−4, making the post time **5:53 PM local** — mid-to-late business hours. This timing strongly favors aide (Scavino/campaign staff) authorship.

Supporting aide indicators: grammatically correct sentences, no typos, functional fundraising URL (DonaldJTrump.com), polished binary structure (accusation → call to action). The "Crooked" epithet and exclamation mark retain a thin veneer of Trumpian style, likely deliberate brand consistency.

**Confidence:** Medium-high that this is aide-written. The post is functionally a fundraising solicitation dressed in Trump's rhetorical costume.

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## Psychological State & Triggers

This post appears in a cluster of at least five posts on the same day, most of which involve:
1. Attacks on DeSantis (competitive/status threat)
2. Mugshot monetization (narcissistic injury → supply conversion)
3. This anti-Biden attack (maintenance/preemptive)

The psychological trigger here is **supply-seeking and competitive maintenance** rather than acute narcissistic injury. With legal pressure from the Chutkan trial date, Georgia arraignment waiver, and the post-mugshot fundraising cycle in full swing, the campaign is in active narrative management mode. Pivoting to Biden "lying" functions as **displacement** — shifting audience attention from Trump's verified legal exposure to a diffuse accusation against the opponent.

**Narcissistic State:** Grandiose (expansive framing, "the American People" alignment, implying Trump is the protector of national truth).

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## Defense Mechanisms

- **Projection (Immature):** The post accuses Biden of dishonesty and "lying to the American People" — the precise accusations leveled at Trump across four active criminal indictment tracks. The subject externalizes onto the opponent the exact qualities documented in his own legal proceedings.
- **Displacement (Neurotic):** Rather than addressing the day's actual legal news (Chutkan's March 4 trial date, Georgia waiver), the post redirects audience hostility toward Biden's advertising spend.
- **Rationalization:** Framing the fundraising solicitation as civic duty ("We can't let him get away with it!") provides a morally elevated cover for donor extraction.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits

- **Agreeableness (very low):** Accusatory, zero charitable framing of opponent.
- **Neuroticism facet — angry hostility (moderate):** "get away with it" signals grievance, though emotional temperature is controlled (aide-mediated).
- **Extraversion — assertiveness (high):** Rallying call, collective framing.
- **Conscientiousness:** Low — no evidence, no sourcing, claim asserted as fact.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

- **Dominant motive: Power/status** — specifically about controlling the narrative and preventing a rival from defining the terms of the campaign.
- **Schema (self):** Protector of truth, defender of the people against elite manipulation.
- **Schema (Biden):** Corrupt, dishonest, powerful enough to threaten with $25M in media.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role:** Watchdog / truth-teller / defender of "the American People."
- **Contrasting other:** "Crooked Joe Biden" — established epithet functioning as compressed character assassination.
- **Narrative sequence:** Contamination implied — Biden's dishonest ads are corrupting the information environment; only Trump's intervention can restore it.
- **Identity claim:** "We" (Trump + base) are the legitimate guardians of American truth against elite media manipulation.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

- **Ad hominem:** "Crooked Joe Biden" — pre-loaded character attack substituting for argument.
- **Appeal to collective identity:** "the American People" positions the audience as co-victims and co-protectors.
- **False urgency / call to action:** "We can't let him get away with it!" is a classic fundraising escalation trigger, designed to convert moral outrage into donation behavior.
- **Unsubstantiated factual anchor:** "$25 Million" provides a specific-sounding number that lends credibility to the accusation while remaining unverified in the provided context.
- **RAND Firehose technique (mild):** Part of a multi-post saturation strategy this day — volume across multiple targets (DeSantis, Biden, Georgia system) normalizes the adversarial frame.

No dehumanizing language. No violent imagery. No stochastic terrorism indicators.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Crooked Joe Biden is spending $25 Million on dishonest TV Ads" | **Unverifiable** | Biden's campaign was running TV ads in August 2023 but the specific $25M figure cannot be verified from available context. 'Dishonest' is editorializing, not a verifiable claim. |
| "Biden is lying to the American People" | **Unverifiable** | No specific lie identified in the post. This is an opinion stated as fact without any referenced evidence. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Cognitive Status

No speech production anomalies detectable (text, likely aide-authored). Syntactic complexity is baseline-low, consistent with campaign communications rather than authentic stream-of-consciousness posts. No cognitive markers of concern in this post specifically.

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## Danger Assessment

**None.** This is a transactional fundraising post with standard oppositional framing. No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no mobilization signals beyond standard donation solicitation.

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## Summary

Not clinically significant as an isolated post. Functions as routine campaign fundraising infrastructure, almost certainly aide-authored during business hours. The psychological interest lies in its **displacement function** within the day's broader cluster: amid the day's actual legal pressures (Chutkan trial date, Georgia waiver), the campaign deploys a Biden attack to redirect audience attention and convert legal-crisis energy into donor revenue. The projection of "dishonesty" onto Biden, on a day when Trump is navigating four criminal indictments, is textbook and consistent with established defensive patterns. No deviation from baseline warranting clinical concern.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 20%)

### Indicators

- Post time 5:53 PM EDT (business hours — strong aide indicator)
- Grammatically correct, no typos
- Fundraising URL (DonaldJTrump.com) appended — campaign infrastructure
- Binary structure: accusation → call to action (classic campaign copy)
- "Crooked" epithet and exclamation mark are stylistic brand mimicry, not authentic stream-of-consciousness

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Campaign fundraising cycle; secondary displacement from legal exposure (Chutkan trial date set same day))

Sentiment: -0.55

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- displacement (neurotic)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 25%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Collective 'We' framing — audience positioned as co-protectors alongside Trump
- Moral urgency trigger — shared outrage as community bonding mechanism
- Named enemy as shared focal point for in-group cohesion

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._

> Crooked Joe Biden is spending $25 Million on dishonest TV Ads

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Biden's campaign was running TV ads in August 2023 but the specific $25M figure cannot be verified from available context. 'Dishonest' is editorializing, not a verifiable claim.

> Biden is lying to the American People

**UNVERIFIABLE**

No specific lie identified in the post. This is an opinion stated as fact without any referenced evidence.

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- fundraising-appeal (90%)
- displacement (80%)
- projection (75%)
- aide-authored (85%)
- biden-attack (90%)
- maintenance-post (80%)
- grandiose-state (60%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**25-Post Blitz Buries Historic Legal Crisis Under DeSantis Attacks and Campaign Bravado**

Trump spent most of the day attacking Ron DeSantis from every angle -- his polling collapse, his donors fleeing, his electricity rate hikes -- while barely acknowledging the historic legal storm closing in around him. A brief flash of anger at Fox News for hosting Chris Christie and Bill Barr gave way to a sustained afternoon content blitz of over two dozen posts, many just shared links amplifying favorable coverage. The Fulton County mugshot, taken just days earlier, was acknowledged exactly once and immediately turned into a fundraising pitch. Notably absent from the entire day: any mention of Hurricane Idalia, which made landfall in Florida as a Category 3 storm, or the racially motivated mass shooting in Jacksonville. The overall mood was aggressively upbeat -- a performance of dominance and normalcy that seemed designed to drown out the legal reality.

Full digest for 2023-08-31: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-31/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 31). Crooked Joe Biden is spending $25 Million on... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110986448713710301
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Crooked Joe Biden is spending $25 Million on dishonest TV..." Truth Social, 31 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110986448713710301. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Crooked Joe Biden is spending $25 Million on dishonest TV...," Truth Social, August 31, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110986448713710301.

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